Imagine the fuss if Google did hybrid desktop and web search – well the new Hotbot toolbar already does

Posted by | April 14, 2004 | search engines | No Comments

HotBot’s New Desktop Search Toolbar:

“HotBot’s new Desktop Search utility not only searches the web, it indexes files and email on your computer, making them searchable as well.”

It’s only a matter of time before Google do this and perhaps what has held them back was fear of being too aggressive against Microsoft.

As I’ve said before, it is crazy that we can search millions of other computers, thousands of miles apart, more quickly than our own machine.

Microsoft should have done this 8 years ago, we should not have to wait because of the stagnation created by a monopoly.